vampireapologist:

vampireapologist:

guys I’m all for tagging things by request but I’m not gonna tag photos of me in a cast and a wheelchair as “injury” bc that’s just……….when I’m injured that’s how I look and how I have to live until I heal. there’s nothing graphic about it and I understand people have unique triggers and that they’re equally valid as more obvious triggers but something happening to my body and it being the body I then have to exist in isn’t something I’m going to tag.

Should people who have to wear permanent braces, casts, or slings tag them?

I once saw an amputee tagged as “body horror.” That sort of thing is unacceptable.

I’m not going to tag the state of my body as a trigger. It’s okay to unfollow me.

hatwitchrevan
It’s not about whether it’s graphic it’s about whether it triggers somebody who has anxiety about injury and is triggered by it? I sometimes get triggered by the mere mention of some medical/emergency things. People asking you to tag this stuff isn’t censorship or implying anything about you or you injury and I’m not understanding what it costs you to tag these things. If you think a trigger is valid why wouldn’t you tag it?

Because the idea of tagging my Literal Body as a trigger makes me extremely uncomfortable! I don’t know how to put it any more simply than that. It’s not a close-up of the injury itself. It’s a photo of me enjoying myself in a wheelchair, and there is no reasonable way for someone to expect me to gladly tag that as a trigger.

Why am I the one expected to make the accommodation here when what I would have to do makes me uncomfortable? If someone is uncomfortable with seeing a photo of me in a a cast and a mobility device, they can much more easily and happily unfollow me, and we could all move on.

I’m not tagging my body and the mobility device it needs to heal as a trigger.